# Programming The Universe

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- Book: [Programming The Universe](https://www.bookquiver.com/seth-lloyd/programming-the-universe) ([Programming The Universe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/seth-lloyd/programming-the-universe.md))
- Authors: [Seth Lloyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/seth-lloyd)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-537-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2007-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE BIT... The universe is made of bits of information and it has been known for more than a century that every piece of the the universe - every electron, atom and molecule - registers these bits and that information. It is only in the last years, however, with the discovery and development of quantum computers, that scientists have gained a fundamental understanding of just how that information is registered and processed. Building on recent breakthroughs in quantum computation, Seth Lloyd shows how the universe itself is a giant computer. Every atom and elementary particle stores these bits, and every collision between those atoms and particles flips the bits into a new arrangement and effortlessly spins out beautiful and complex systems, including galaxies, planets and life itself. But every computer needs a program, the set of instructions that tell it what patterns to create. Where did the bits come from that tell the universe to create its magnificent complexity? Who - or what - is programming the universe?